The present book proposes a framework for understanding long- term change in world politics in terms of social evolution. ‘Change’ deliberately includes the very emergence of world politics as a recognizable realm in its own right within the social world and its constant transformation thereafter. In order to provide such a framework, this book offers a condensed, yet quite far-reaching, r…
This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis. Powerful new technologies enable the collection, communication and analysis of national security data on an unprecedented scale. Data collection now plays a central role in intelligence practice, yet this development raises a host of ethical and national security proble…
A response to the depletion of the rhetoric of sociology and the spiritual capital of theology, this volume explores the remains of Christianity that still lurk as portents in a progressively de-Christianised society seeking replacements for belief. With the sociologist set in the role of an oracle seeking traces of Christianity in a discipline in which the intrusion of theological understandin…
This SAGE Handbook brings together cutting edge social scientific research and theoretical insight into the emerging contours of digital society. Chapters explore the relationship between digitisation, social organisation and social transformation at both the macro and micro level, making this a valuable resource for postgraduate students and academics conducting research across the social scie…
This book is about homemaking in situations of migration and displacement. It explores how homes are made, remade, lost, revived, expanded and contracted through experiences of migration, to ask what it means to make a home away from home. We draw together a wide range of perspectives from across multiple disciplines and contexts, which explore how old homes, lost homes, and new homes connect a…
This book is concerned with applying the top-down approach of systems engineering to the development of a contribution to our understanding of society and the forces that drive its evolution. It is motivated by my assertion that we are currently at a critical point in this evolution and that a failure to recognise this could have unfortunate consequences. But for such recognition to develop and…
It was shortly after dawn one morning in May 1979 when my rattling Soviet-made black Volga passed through the mist-covered mountains of northern Vietnam and descended into Lang Son, near the border with China. A key bridge south of the town had collapsed and lay buckled on its side as a makeshift bamboo raft ferried people across the river. The ruins of the former brick hospital could be recogn…
Managerial Accounting includes pedagogical elements that engage and instruct students without cluttering the pages or interrupting student learning. Garrison’s key pedagogical tools enhance and support students’ understanding of the concepts rather than compete with the narrative for their attention.
Ability to use information and communication technologies (ICT) is an imperative for effective participation in today’s digital age. Schools worldwide are responding to the need to provide young people with that ability. But how effective are they in this regard? The IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) responded to this question by studying the extent to which yo…
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This book challenges the conventional wisdom-one that has long been asserted by policymakers and cyber experts alike-that cyberspace is a dangerous environment prone to escalation. Rather than triggering increasingly severe patterns of violence, the evidence shows that cyber actions and responses generally follow a proportionate, tit-for-tat dynamic. Therefore, this book offers a theoretical fr…
Dalam berinteraksi manusia membutuhkan kemampuan berkomunikasi agar apa yang ingin disampaikan dapat diterima orang lain. Komunikasi menjadi kemampuan dasar seorang manusia dalam menyampaikan atau dengan kata lain menjadi jembatan penyampaian sebuah ide, pendapat dan makna dari dua orang atau lebih. Seorang profesional kesehatan wajib memiliki kemampuan berkomunikasi yang baik mengingat dalam m…
A state-of-the-art collection of original, research-based essays exploring new directions in radio and audio research
Content analysis is one of the most important research techniques in the social sciences. It acknowledges that society is enacted in talk, texts, and other modalities of communication and that understanding social phenomena cannot be achieved without understanding how language operates in the social world. Content analysts inquire into social phenomena by treating data not as physical events bu…
If you are looking to start developing your data self-defense and critical news consumption skills, this book is for you! It reflects a long-term collaboration between a statistician and a journalist to shed light on the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics. The only prerequisite for enjoying this book is an interest in developing the skills and insights for bette…
This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but …
The Introduction to Law that you are now holding in your hands is special in the sense that it introduces students to law in general and not to the law of one specific jurisdiction. It has been written with two goals in mind. First, this book is meant to be used in the course Introduction to Law of the Maastricht European Law School. This course aims to provide law students with the global know…